slype 
from the transept to the chapter-house or to 
the deanery. 
S. M. An abbreviation of short meter. 
smack 1 (smak), v. i. [Formerly and still dial. 
assibilated smatcli, q. v. ; (a) < ME. smacken, 
smackien, smaken, < AS. *smacian, smacigan = 
OFries. smakia. = MD. smaecken, D. siiiiil.-ni 
= MLG. smaken, smacken = OHG. smakki'n, 
smaclicn,smalihen,give forth taste, MHG. smach- 
en, smacken, taste, try, smell, perceive, = Icel. 
smakka = Sw. smaka = Dan. smage (Scand. 
prob. < LG.), taste; (6) < ME. smecchen (pret. 
smeiiite, smachte, smauhte, pp. smaiight, ismnlit, 
ismeiJit, ismecched), have a savor, scent, taste, 
relish, imagine, understand, perceive, < AS. 
smeccan, smeeccan, sinecgan, taste, = OFries. 
smekka, smeisa = MLG. smecken = OHG. smec- 
chan, MHG. smecken, G. schmecken, taste, try, 
smell, perceive; from the noun. The senses 
are more or less involved, but all rest on the 
sense 'taste.' The word is commonly but erro- 
neously regarded as identical with smack 2 , as 
if 'taste' proceeds from 'smacking the lips.'] 
1. To have a taste ; have a certain flavor; sug- 
gest a certain thing by its flavor. 
[It] smacketh like pepper. 
Baret, Alvearie, 1580. (Latham.) 
2. Hence, figuratively, to have a certain char- 
suggest 
monly with of. 
All sects, all ages smack of this vice. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. 6. 
Do not these verses smack of the rough magnanimity of 
the old English vein 1 Lamb, New Year's Eve. 
Pears that smack of the sunny South. 
Ji. H. Stoddard, Squire of Low Degree. 
smack 1 (smak), n. [Formerly and still dial, 
assibilated smatch. q. v. ; < ME. smak (also as- 
sibilated smach), < AS. smtec = MD. smeeck, D. 
smaak = G. geschmack = Sw. smak = Dan. smag, 
taste: see smack 1 , v. The AS. sicsec, swsecc, 
savor, smell, is a different word.] 1. A taste 
or flavor; savor; especially, a slight flavor that 
suggests a certain thing; also, the sense of 
taste. 
The streine of straunge deuise, 
Which Epicures do now adayes inuent, 
To yeld good smacke vnto their daintie tongues. 
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part smartly so as to make a sharp sound : used 
chiefly of the lips. 
Not smackynge thy lyppes, as comonly do hogges. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 344. 
Smacking his lips witli an air of ineffable relish. Scott. 
4. To kiss, especially in a coarse or noisy man- 
ner. 
The curled whirlpools suck, smack, and embrace, 
Yet drown them. Donne. 
II. i at ni us. 1. To make a sharp sound by a 
smart parting of the lips, as after tasting some- 
thing agreeable. 
The King, when weary he would rest awhile, 
Dreams of the Dainties he hath had yer-while, 
Smacks, swallows, grindes both with his teeth and laws. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
Swedish horses are stopped by a whistle, and encouraged 
by a smacking of the lips. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travels, p. 22. 
2. To kiss so as to make a smart, sharp sound 
with the lips; kiss noisily. 3. To come or go 
against anything with great force. Halliwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] To smack at, to smack the lips at as 
an expression of relish or enjoyment 
He that by crafty significations of ill-will doth prompt 
the slanderer to vent his poison ... he that pleasingly 
relisheth and smacketh at it, as he is a partner in the fact 
so he is a sharer in the guilt Barrow, I. 391. (Davies.) 
She had praised detestable custard, and smacked at 
wretched wines. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixxi. 
loud noise, = G. sclimats, a smack, = Sw. dial. 
smakk, a light, quick blow, = Dan. smsek, a 
smack, rap: see smack?, .] 1. A smart, sharp 
sound made by the lips, as in a hearty kiss, or 
as an expression of enjoyment after an agree- 
able taste ; also, a similar sound made by the 
lash of a whip; a crack; a snap. 
He ... kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack 
That at the parting all the church did echo. 
Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. 180. 
2. A sharp, sudden blow, as with the flat of 
the hand; a slap. Johnson. 3. A loud kiss; 
a buss. 
She next instructs him in the kiss, 
'Tis now a little one, like Miss, 
And now a hearty smttck. 
Covper, The Parrot (trans.). 
The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to 
their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a 
hearty smack. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 171. 
Gascoigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 59. smack 2 (smak), adv. [An elliptical use of 
Muske, though it be_ sweet in ye smel, is sowre in the smack z , r.] In a sudden and direct or aggres- 
sive manner, as with a smack or slap ; sharply ; 
plump; straight. 
, 
smacke. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 90. 
Hence 2. A flavor or suggestion of a certain 
quality. 
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath 
yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness 
Give me a man who is always plumping his dissent to 
my doctrines smack in my teeth. 
Caiman the Younger, Poor Gentleman, iii. 1. 
of time. 
Some smack of Kobin Hood is in the man. 
Lowell, Under the Willows. 
3f. Scent; smell. 
Kest vpon a clyffe ther costese lay drye, 
He [a raven, who just before is said to "croak for comfort" 
on finding carrion] hade the smelle of the smach & 
smoltes theder sone. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 461. 
4. A small quantity ; a taste ; a smattering. 
If it be one that hath a little smack of learning, he re- 
jecteth as homely gear and common ware whatsoever is 
not stuffed full of old moth-eaten words and terms, that 
be worn out of use. 
Sir T. More, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 12. 
He 'says the wimble, often draws it back, 
And deals to thirsty servants but a smack. 
Dnjden, tr. of Persius's Satires, iv. 69. 
=Syn. 1. Flavor, Savor, etc. (see taste), tang. 8. Touch 
spice, dash, tinge. 
smack 2 (smak), v. [< ME. 'smacken, < MD. 
smacken, D. smakken, smite, knock, cast, fling, 
throw, = MLG. smacken = LG. smakken, smack 
(the lips), = G. schmatzen (var. of "schmacken; 
cf. E. smatter), smack, fell (a tree), = Sw. 
smacka, smack, Sw. dial, smakka, throw down 
noisily, smacka, hit smartly, = Dan. smxkke, 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. ill. smack 3 (smak), n. [< MD. smacke, D. smak = 
MLG. smacke, LG. smak (cf. Dan. smakke = Sw. 
smack = G. schmacke = F. semaque = Sp. esmaqve 
= Pg. sumaca, all < D. or LG.), a smack; gen- 
erally thought to stand for "snack = AS. snacc 
= Icel. snekkja = Sw. snacka = Dan. snekke, a 
small sailing vessel, a smack; cf. Sw. snacka, 
Dan. snekke = MLG. LG. snigge = OHG. sneg- 
go, snecco, MHG. snegge, snecke, G. schnecke, a 
snail; from the root of E. sneak, snake, snail: 
see sneak, snake, snag 3 , snail. For the inter- 
change of sm- and sn-, cf. smatter.'} 1 . A sloop- 
rigged vessel formerly much used in the coast- 
ing and fishing trade. 2. A fishing-vessel pro- 
vided with a well in which the fish are kept alive ; 
a fishing-smack. Smacks are either sailing vessels 
or steamers. They are chiefly market-boats, and in the 
United States are most numerous on the south coast of 
New England. 
Previous to 1846, the Gloucester vessels engaged in the 
halibut fishery did not carry ice, and many of them were 
made into smacks, so-called, which was done by building 
a water-tight compartment amidships, and boring holes 
in the bottom to admit salt-water, and thus the fish were 
kept alive. Fisherman's Memorial Book, p. 70. 
smack-bpat (smak'bot), n. A fishing-boat pro- 
vided with a well, often a clincher-built row- 
boat, ten or fifteen feet long, as that carried by 
and other fishing-vessels. 
give a sharp blow to, especially with the inside 
cneek. 
They are conceited snips of men, . . . and you feel like 
smacking them, as you would a black fly or a mosquito 
H. W. Beecher, Yale Lectures on Preaching. 
A teacher who had smacked a boy's ear for impertinence 
The Congregationalist, June 11, 1885. 
2. To cause (something) to emit a sharp sound 
by striking or slapping it with something else : 
as, he smacked the table with his fist. 3. To 
3.] 
Smacked (ground as smacked corn). 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XVII. 46. 
smackee (smak'e), . [< smack + dim. -ee 2 .] 
A small fishing-smack. E. Ingersoll. [Key 
West, Florida.] 
smacker (smak'er), . [< smack? + -er 1 .] 1. 
One who smacks. 2. A smack, or loud kiss. 
[Cf.; 
Such as medtte by snatches, never chewing the cud 
and digesting their meat, they n>ay happily get a smack- 
small 
erinff, for discourse and table-talk, hut not enough to keep 
soul and life together, much less for strength and vigour. 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. S3. 
smack-fisherman (smak'fish"er-man), 11. A 
fisherman belongingto a smack; a smackman. 
smacking (smak'ing), p. a. Making a sharp, 
brisk sound; hence, smart; lively. 
Then gives a smacking buss, and cries " No words ! " 
Pope, To MissBIount, 1. 26. 
We had a tmackiny breeze for several hours, and went 
along at a great rate until night. 
ft. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 276. 
smackman. smacksman (smak'man, smaks'- 
man),.; p\.sniackmcn, smacksmcn (-men). One 
who sails or works on a smack. 
A fearful gale drowned no less than 360 smackrmen. 
The Academy, B'eb. 4, 1888, p. 77. 
Smack-smooth (smak'smoTH), adv. Openly; 
without obstruction or impediment ; also, 
smoothly level. 
smaik (smak), n. [Icel. smeykr, mean-spirit- 
ed, timid; cf. muri/kimi, insinuating, cringing, 
sleek.] A puny or silly fellow ; a paltry rogue. 
[Scotch.] 
smale 1 (smal), a. A dialectal form of small. 
I'liitucer. 
smale 2 (smal), n. [Origin obscure.] The form 
of a hare. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Smalkaldic (smal-kal'dik), a. [Also Sclimal- 
kaldic or Smalcaldie; < Smalkald, Schmalkiild, 
or Smalcald, in G. Schmalkalden, + -'c.] Per- 
taining to Schmalkalden, a town in Thuringia. 
- Smalkaldic Articles. Same as Articles of Schmal- 
kald (which see, under article). Smalkaldic League, a 
league entered into at Schiualkalden in 1581 by several 
Protestant princes and free cities for the common defense 
of their faith and political independence against the em- 
peror Charles V. Smalkaldic war, the unsuccessful war 
waged by the Smalkaldic League against Charles V. (1546- 
small (smal), a. and u. [Formerly also smal; 
also dial, smale; < ME. small, smal, smel (pi. 
smale), < AS. smeel, thin, small, = OS. smal = 
OFries. smel = D. smal =. MLG. smal = OHG. 
MHG. smal, G. schmal, slender, = Dan. Sw. 
smal, narrow, thin (cf. Icel. obs. small, n., small 
cattle, goats, etc., smxlingi, a small man), = 
Goth, smals, small ; related to Icel. smdr = Dan. 
smaa = Sw. smd = OHG. smalii, MHG. smahe, 
sinselie, small (cf. OHG. smdhi, smallness, G. 
schmacli, disgrace, orig. smallness, scltmachten, 
languish, dwindle) ; prob. related to L. macer, 
lean, thin (see meager), Gr. /uinpof, long,uiKp6^, 
o[iiKp6f, small (see macron, micron ) ; cf . OBulg. 
Mali, small, Gr. /iffa (for "a^'Xa T), small cat- 
tle, Olr. mil, a beast.] I. a. 1. Slender; thin; 
narrow. 
With middle smal & wel ymake. 
Specimens of E. E. (ed. Morris and Skeat), II. iv. (AX 1. 16. 
2. Little in size ; not great or large ; of less than 
average or ordinary dimensions; diminutive. 
This small inheritance my father left me 
Contenteth me. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 10. 20. 
Lord Barnard he had a little small sword, 
That hung low down by his knee. 
Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 43). 
3. Little or inferior in degree, quantity, amount, 
duration, number, value, etc. ; short (in time or 
extent); narrow, etc. 
Thus the! endured thre dayes, that neuer the! dide of 
haubrek ne helme from theire hedes till the nyght that 
the! ete soche vitaile as thei hadde, but it was full small. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.X ii. 257. 
The army of the Syrians came with a xmnll company of 
men. 2 Chron. xriv. 24. 
There arose no small stir about that way. Acts six. 28. 
I had but a smal desire to walke much abroad in the 
street*. Coryat, Crudities, I. 96. 
The small time I staid in London, diners Courtiers and 
others, my acquaintances, hath gone with mee to see her. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 32. 
They went aboard the Eebecka, which, two days before, 
was frozen twenty miles up the river ; but a smatt rain 
falling set her free. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 209. 
Though we have not sent all we would (because our 
cash is small), yet it is y we could. 
Quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 144. 
A small mile below the bridge there is an oblong square 
hill, which seems to have been made by art. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 73. 
The small, hard, wiry pulse. Quain, Med. Diet., p. 112. 
A fud'dah is the smallest Egyptian coin. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 372. 
4. Low, as applied to station, social position, 
etc. 
Al were it so she were of smal degree, 
Suftiseth hym hir yowthe and hir beautee. 
Chaucer, .Merchant's Tale, 1. 381. 
The king made a feast unto all the people that were 
present in Shnshau the palace, both unto great and smatt. 
Esther i. 5. 
